Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 - 6 June 1961), a famous Swiss Psychologist, Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst was born in Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland. He was the second and first surviving son of Paul Achilles Jung (1842 - 1896), who was a rural pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church and Emilie Preiswerk (1848 - 1923), who was a member of a large Swiss family.
Carl Jung is known as the founder of analytical psychology, which is a school of psychotherapy emphasizes on individual psyche and the personal quest for wholeness. Analytical psychology also known as Jungian psychology.
He was an early supporter of Sigmund Freud, and later chose his own path to continue the journey. The division was personally painful and historically notable, and paved way for new contributions to the field of psychology.
Important contributions by Carl Jung
Analytical Psychology
As we have discussed earlier, analytical psychology is a school of psychotherapy emphasizes on individual psyche and the personal quest for wholeness. Analytical psychology also known as Jungian psychology.
It is a psychological, psychoanalytical or psycho therapeutic system
developed and prescribed by Jung, later transformed as a school of
psychotherapy originated in the ideas of Carl Jung.
As
the system was evolved over by taking a long time, embraces a lot of
elements (or concepts) such as individuation, personal unconsciousness,
symbols, collective unconsciousness, archetypes, complexes, persona,
shadow, anima, animus, self etc. So it is very difficult to define.
However, in nutshell, it is possible to say that:
"Archetypal
psychology, is a school of psychotherapy characterized by elements (or
concepts) such as individuation, personal unconsciousness, symbols,
collective unconsciousness, archetypes, complexes, persona, shadow,
anima, animus and self, emphasizes on individual psyche and the personal quest for wholeness."
It
is not a complete definition, but will help you to get a big picture
that can shed light to your future investigation into the beauty of
wilderness.
Psychological Types
In his book 'Psychologische Typen',
originally written in German that means 'Psychological Types', Jung
categorized people into primary types of psychological function. He
suggested four major functions of consciousness:
Perceiving functions: Sensation and Intuition
Judging functions: Thinking and Feeling
These psychological functions are modified by two major attitude types. They are:
Extroversion and Introversion
According
to Jung, the dominant function characterizes one's consciousness, while
the other function is repressed and characterizes unconscious
behaviour.
Based on these psychological functions and attitude types, Jung formulated eight psychological types:
1. Extroverted Senstion
2. Introverted Sensation
3. Extroverted Intuition
4. Introverted Intuition
5. Extroverted Thinking
6. Introverted Thinking
7. Extroverted Feeling
8. Introverted Feeling
(A detailed analysis of these psychological functions and types will be added later).
Jung's concept of psyche and unconscious
According to Jung psyche is made up of three interactive but separate systems:
1. The ego
2. The personal unconsciousness and
3. The collective unconsciousness
The ego
The ego represents, Freudian concept of 'conscious mind'. In Jung's view ego encompasses thoughts, memories and emotions an individual is aware about. It is responsible for a person's feelings of identity and continuity.
The personal unconscious
The personal unconscious is the first layer of unconscious. It is similar to Freud's concept of unconscious.
Collective unconscious
Collective unconscious is the shared unconsciousness of
mankind. More precisely it is the shared layer of unconsciousness by
beings of same species. It includes latent memories of ancestral and
evolutionary past.
(This article is originally written by Geo Kappen, Psychologist, Starsero. Unauthorized copying or publishing without permission is prohibited).
These are some of the basic concepts by C. G. Jung. There are many other highly interesting facts such as synchronicity, the archetypes in collective unconscious (anima, animus etc..) from Carl Jung that can enhance your vision for a highly successful life. We will add more content related to them as soon as possible. Stay connected. Thank you.
(This article is originally written by Geo Kappen, Psychologist, Starsero. Unauthorized copying or publishing without permission is prohibited).
These are some of the basic concepts by C. G. Jung. There are many other highly interesting facts such as synchronicity, the archetypes in collective unconscious (anima, animus etc..) from Carl Jung that can enhance your vision for a highly successful life. We will add more content related to them as soon as possible. Stay connected. Thank you.
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